Caroline Wozniacki reveals ‘shock’ after rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis

Caroline Wozniacki has revealed she was diagnosed with an auto-immune disorder before his year’s US open. “After Wimbledon, I wasn’t feeling well. I thought it was just the flu. I was on vacation and I wasn’t feeling good,” she said. “I woke up and I can’t lift my arms over my head. I don’t really know what it was. For a while, I thought maybe I have mono. It turns out that I have an autoimmune disease, which is rheumatoid arthritis, which goes in and attacks your joints.” She added: “In the beginning, it was a shock, just you feel like you’re the fittest athlete out there, or that’s in my head, that’s what I’m known for, and all of a sudden you have this to work with. “Yeah, it is what it is, and you just have to be positive and work with it, and there are ways that you can feel better so that’s great. “It’s been a lot to just take in. After the US Open, I just kind of had to figure out what really was going on. So that’s when I really figured it out. I went to see one of the best doctors that there is and, you know, start treatment. “You know, at the end of the day, it’s obviously not ideal for anybody, and I think when you’re a professional athlete, it’s also not even more ideal, but at the end of the day, you find a plan, figure out what to do, you do your research, and thankfully there are great things now that you can do to it and do about it. “You just kind of move on from it and work through it and figure out how to deal with it and live with it. That’s that. I’m very proud of how I have been so positive through it all and just kind of tried to not let that hinder me.”

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